The Returned Heiress Who Had It All (Cassia) novel Chapter 507

Chapter 507 Her Past

Chapter 507 Her Past

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Back then, the orphanage was poor. They were given leftovers to eat, and sometimes there wasn’t even any food at all. The children had to go hungry.

Once, the orphanage ran out of food again. The caretakers secretly took the little remaining food for themselves behind Peter’s back, while Cassia and a few other kids cried from hunger.

While crying, she set up several traps around the orphanage, copying what she had seen on TV. After teaching a lesson to two or three selfish caretakers who had stolen the food, they pinned her to the ground and beat her hard.

She struggled free and ran out of the orphanage.

She wandered around the barren hills and accidentally found a type of hybrid strawberry.

Peter had often warned them that many things in the mountains were poisonous and shouldn’t be eaten.

But Cassia was too hungry to think. She picked a few strawberries and ate them.

After eating a few, she realized they were sweet and delicious. Just a few made her feel full, almost like eating bread.

Excited, she picked a lot more, carrying them in her patched–up clothes, and brought them back to share with the other children.

She kept a few strawberries aside.

At first, Cassia meant to save them in case of need, but after hiding them under her bed, she forgot about them for a long time.

Five years later, after learning some research skills, she suddenly remembered those strawberries.

When she found them, they hadn’t changed at all. They were still bright red and fresh, as if they had just ripened.

She immediately began studying them and successfully extracted a special gene.

Rowan, who had taught her research skills, told her that this gene was why the strawberries stayed fresh for five years, remained sweet and juicy, and even had beauty–enhancing effects.

Then Cassia had a sudden idea. If this gene were injected into other fruits, would they gain the

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same properties?

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She acted on it right away. After a month of research, she proved that the gene worked exactly as she had imagined. It could be applied to all fruits!

Later, she used it to cultivate watermelons, durians, apples, and other fruits. They all had the same qualities–sweet, juicy, long–lasting, and beneficial for the skin.

She was only nine years old then and didn’t have much money. She borrowed 500,000 dollars to buy several acres of land in the town and started a plantation dedicated to growing those fruits.

With Rowan’s help, the fruits quickly entered major markets, and money began pouring in. She paid back the 500,000 within a week.

Cassia met Rowan at four. After spending five years mastering knowledge from elementary school through a master’s level, she only truly began making money at nine.

The plantation was her first big profit.

The adults at the orphanage were already used to Cassia disappearing from time to time. Since she would always come back eventually, they just ignored it.

No one knew that the skinny, undernourished–looking girl already had assets worth over a million.

Even when Cassia disappeared for two years, no one cared.

If she hadn’t suddenly shown up at the orphanage entrance two years later, they might have forgotten she ever existed.

In fact, they already had. How could they possibly remember someone like her?

Even though she was making millions every month from the plantation, Cassia wasn’t satisfied.

Later, she joined a singing competition in Zrario, competed in international chess tournaments, joined The Crows, and bought her own plane ticket to study in Montavia for two years. During that time, she earned both a medical license and a psychology certification.

Not for anything else–just to challenge herself and keep life interesting.

Otherwise, staying in the orphanage all day would be too boring.

She met Rosalie’s father, Richard Scott, a few years before starting the plantation.

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Knowing how much she valued freedom, Rowan suggested she find someone to manage the plantation for her so she could have more time.

At that time, Richard had failed in business using money from Rosalie’s mother. He was buried in debt and humiliated by the Laurents, pushed to the brink.

Despairing, he stood by the rushing river in Chesthale Peak, ready to end his life.

Cassia happened to pass by, saw him, and saved him.

She handed over the management of her plantation to him, giving him the will to live again.

What followed–the story of Richard, the powerful CEO of a Fortune 500 company–was exactly what Rosalic had described.

The Scott Group was essentially attached to Cassia personally, much like Nicole’s Cosmo Group.

If she hadn’t entrusted him with the plantation, Richard would likely have sunk into the cold river, never to rise again.

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